Loading CSV Files in UWP
Video summarizing this post: I’ve recently worked on a series of UWP apps that needed to load up a CSV file. I’m tired of looking this up every time, so… Read More »Loading CSV Files in UWP
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Alexa Audio Skill in C# (.Net Core)
Fork the Alexa Audio Tutorial in C# I originally started working with Alexa Skills because I wanted to write an skill to listen to podcasts. That’s how this whole mess… Read More »Alexa Audio Skill in C# (.Net Core)
Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – The Code
In the last piece, I walked through setting up an AWS account and putting together the policies needed to deploy your code to Amazon’s Lambda service. Now we’re going to… Read More »Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – The Code
Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – Setup
The Amazon Echo is amazing and you should have one. Or at least an Amazon Dot, which offers the voice interface of the Echo without the built-in speaker. I have… Read More »Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – Setup
Saving and Loading App Data (Windows Store C# UWP / 8.1)
Every application needs to save information, usually in the form of objects or lists of objects. To ease Windows (Phone) app development, I have my data saving process templated in… Read More »Saving and Loading App Data (Windows Store C# UWP / 8.1)
Loading a Local CSV File in Windows (Phone)
Lots of little side projects I work on are data visualizations and, unlike every other person in the data visualization game, I do them in XAML because 1) I’m good at… Read More »Loading a Local CSV File in Windows (Phone)
Circle Packing Algorithm in C# / XAML
I recently (translation: not very recently) put up an post on circle packing in Processing and completely forgot to follow up with a port of that algorithm porting that to C#.… Read More »Circle Packing Algorithm in C# / XAML
Uploading an Image to Facebook in Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight)
Full code tutorial on taking, formatting & uploading images to Facebook in Windows Phone 7.x
Fixing the ListPicker / ScrollViewer Problem in Windows Phone 7
I’m working on a new project in which I need multiple ListPickers in a ScrollViewer. The ListPicker is available via the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. If you don’t… Read More »Fixing the ListPicker / ScrollViewer Problem in Windows Phone 7
PHP, MySQL, and Silverlight: The Complete Tutorial (Part 3)
This is meant to be the one-stop-shop blog post for creating a very simple web service in PHP that pulls from a MySQL database and displaying the data in Silverlight.… Read More »PHP, MySQL, and Silverlight: The Complete Tutorial (Part 3)